Non-market economies (or Communist countries) are subjected to unusually high levels of Western trade protection. Why do non-market economy exports face higher levels of trade protection than other country groups, including ...

In this dissertation, I present three essays that study the significance of erōs in Plato's political philosophy and explore its practical implication for the principle of democratic liberty. The love the word erōs refers ...

Those individuals at the front lines of service delivery are once again prominent figures in studies of policy implementation. Recent scholarship addressing regulatory enforcement, public management, bureaucratic control, ...

This dissertation analyzes three areas of contemporary European Union (EU) social policy---social exclusion, gender equality, and employment---in an attempt to understand the implications of European integration for societies ...

This study explores the internal struggles of the upper ranks of the political elite in the wake of the neoliberal economic reforms in Mexico. Since, until recently, the PRI had a monopoly over the political system, the ...

In DR Congo and South Africa, men, women and children have suffered the consequences of an extraordinary increase in gender-based violence over the past two decades. In DR Congo, despite seemingly insurmountable logistical ...

Under what conditions do political elites begin to fear that young people will fail to become responsible citizens? What do these conditions and the solutions adopted tell us about the values and skills associated with ...

This dissertation addresses the question of why states comply with some international norms more than others. I focus on Japan's high compliance with international norms regarding the human rights of foreign residents, ...

This dissertation explores the sources and mechanisms of social policy change in China during the reform era. In it, I first argue that, starting in the late 1990s, China's leadership began shifting social policy away from ...

This dissertation employs the analytics of biopolitics, critical race theory, and feminist theory to explore the racial and gender dynamics of the political and medical construction of the American `obesity epidemic.' Its ...

This comparative content analysis study examines the health care reform debates that took place in the early 1990's in Sweden and the United States in an effort to understand the role that cultural values might play in ...

Before 2003, the Justices on the United States Supreme Court routinely, if infrequently, cited foreign or international jurisprudence in their written opinions. Neither the media, nor members of Congress paid much, if any ...

This project is motivated by a desire to examine the patterns that evolve as activists and their opponents struggle to control how the public and policymakers understand a particular issue at the center of contention. ...

Prevailing understandings about what it meant to be American underwent significant changes at the turn of the 20th century. This study examines how challenges posed by racial mixture contributed to defining and redefining ...

Despite the extensive academic scholarship considering political resistance and activism within the United States, little has been done to orient acts destroying property as a form of political participation. I argue that ...

In the last few decades, thousands have died in election-related violence. In the past ten years in Africa alone, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Algeria, Madagascar, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Chad, Angola, Togo, ...

This study examines, contrasts, and analyzes the near absence of unrest in the Costa Rican coffee sector and the somewhat regular unrest in the Costa Rican banana sector. An explanation for such divergent behavior within ...

In this dissertation I introduce and develop the concepts of foreign nation visibility and foreign prioritization, and I analyze them in U.S. public discourse about foreign affairs, examining whether and how they have ...

Transparency has been hailed as the key to better governance. Access to government information empowers citizens, enables journalists, constrains politicians, and exposes corruption. Yet for precisely these reasons, ...